CiNEMERCATOR - Charlie Kaufman Anomalisa 2015
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4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
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Charlie Kaufman Anomalisa 2015
Anomalisa explores what it feels like to live inside a mind that has lost its ability to recognize others as fully real. The film follows a man whose inner world has flattened experience itself: people merge into a single voice, encounters repeat and difference becomes difficult to perceive.
Directed by Charlie Kaufman, the film continues his long-standing interest in self-awareness as a painful- often paralyzing condition.
Maaikes' choice
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Ernst Lubitsch Trouble in Paradise 1932
Lubitsch's cinema suggests that social life is a series of roles and that grace lies not in sincerity, but in awareness. Trouble in Paradise remains a masterclass about how lightness, when guided by intelligence, can become a form of critique.
Made during the brief openness of the pre-Code era, the film reflects Lubitsch’s European sensibility within the Hollywood system; it exposes bourgeois morality without attacking it openly. Wealth is seductive but hollow, romance is intense but unstable.
Lubitsch is less concerned with moral resolution than with social insight. What is often called the Lubitsch touch is not charm for its own sake, but a discipline of omission. He trusts implication more than declaration. His films assume an alert viewer, one capable of reading what is withheld. Trouble in Paradise is a perfect example of that economy; it does not resolve tensions but stages them with composure and irony and accepts contradiction as the condition of modern life.
Merthes' choice
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